Sentence examples for ploy to work from inspiring English sources

For this ploy to work, it's important not to look too closely at details. Like the fact that much of the gas probably won't make it to Europe – because what the bills allow is for gas to be sold on the world market to any country belonging to the World Trade Organisation.

I believe that he purposely deceived me, using the possibility of joining the ROTC as a ploy to work with the draft board to delay his induction and get a new draft classification".

The French are deeply unhappy with the way they have been governed, but their main grievance is about pension reform, which is seen as a cynical ploy to make ordinary people work more for inferior entitlements, while bailed-out bankers and the rich get tax rebates and continue to enjoy the high life.

The ploy appeared to work: almost 42 million people watched the Oscars last year, a 15 percent increase from the year before, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Jalila couldn't even master the safety catch, but the ploy seemed to work; after that, she says, she was treated with suspicion, and regularly frisked and subjected to room searches by her new owners.

It was a ploy that threatened to work as Charles N'Zogbia spun away from Fernandinho and sprinted 40 yards to unleash a shot that whistled past the post.

The ploy initially seemed to work, with one Midwestern Democrat hurling attacks at a fellow Member from the Northwest, citing the map as evidence.

Letting them turn a profit on a ploy to immiserate working people and strip them of democratic power sends a pretty strong signal, too.

Your fellow no campaigners will be scattered across all the colours of the political spectrum, from the far left international socialists who see nationalism as a ploy to destroy working class solidarity, to the dyed in the wool red-white-and-blue unionists.

It was a desperate ploy that seldom threatened to work.

It is a ploy that is unlikely to work against the cuter Klitschko.